Major Additions - AME 2.5 - Media Embedding for posts, sigs, vm's, groups and blogs

From the makers of the letters O and Yea comes the hottest 'must have mod' of the season: AME 2.5 - The Return of The Hot Mama.

Thanks everyone for making AME 2.5 Mod of the Month

AME is the multi award winning modification that smartly scans new and edited posts for URLs from a customisable variety of web sites (i.e. YouTube or Amazon or about 200 others). If it finds a match, AME will 'transform' the URL into inline embedded media without your users ever having to even think about it.

It was important for me to create a system that did not need updating (and subsequent reinstalling) every time one of the sites it supported decided to change the way it displayed its media (which is all the fricken time). Therefore I built a system in which the 'definitions' for each site could be imported, exported, tweaked and shared on a whim. This way, you only have to import the definitions that you want. It also allows the vB community to get creative and share definitions that I wouldn't of thought of!

Which sites are supported?

Included in the default installation is YouTube and Amazon. At time of posting this, I believe that there are over 180 sites supported that have been created by the vBulletin community. These range from sites that stream videos to Amazon referral links to locally hosted music and video files.

Check out the 'add ons' section of this post below to see availible add-ons.

For a total list of features and an FAQ, see click here.
For a post on troubleshooting, click here.

Though not tested on any version of vBulletin lower than 3.7.4, in theory it should work on versions 3.5 and higher (just dont quote this bit!).

Big thanks goes out to all those in the community that have supported this mod. Especially Digital Jedi who gives great support on this mod and has created over 160 definitions for this system alone!


Installation/Upgrade

• Upload the contents of the forums folder into your forums directory and import the product-ame.xml file into your product manager (if upgrading, choose 'yes' to overwrite previous installation).
• After installation, make sure that the system is on (admincp->AME CP->Settings)
• Then you may want to try to rebuild old URLs via the tools option.

Change Log

• 20/1/09 - Uploaded to vb.org
• 22/1/09 - v. 2.5.2. Adresses a couple minor issues and character sets
• 23/1/09 - v. 2.5.3 minor update: Fixed ksort error on import and nomedia display
• 3/2/09 - v. 2.5.4 minor update to address rare bug with some page titles
• 3/7/09 - v.2.5.5 minor updates to address rare bug editing media with brackets in name
• 9/12/09 - v.2.5.6 minor updates youtubes validation process, a ccurl bug and rebuild not using the date like a good girl

nJoy

[Hornstar]

I wanted to delete all my definitions and start fresh, but I can't delete any of them.

Even if I only tick 1, then press save. I get a pure white screen a second later.

What should I do?

[TheInsaneManiac]

my settings are not updating

[BirdOPrey5]

Installed and working fine on 3.8.4 PL2, I would have preferred clearer instructions on what to do with existing youtube and amazon definitions before upgrading from v2... should they have been disabled? deleted? kept? whatever I did I guess worked, no double embedding or anything.

[blastme]

I installed it correctly as fas as I know and I don't get the embedded video. This is all I get.

[youtube]zFlHDlYs4c4[/youtube]

Any ideas what is wrong ? TIA

[jdougher]

Uninstalled this and re-installed. Still doesn't do anything (any more--used to work). Totally broken. Can't get it to convert *anything.*

vBulletin 3.8.4 PL1.

[Gav-n-Tn]

Originally Posted by jdougher

Uninstalled this and re-installed. Still doesn't do anything (any more--used to work). Totally broken. Can't get it to convert *anything.*

vBulletin 3.8.4 PL1.

Me either. Still installed but just taking up space. Never did work.

[jdougher]

Originally Posted by Gav-n-Tn

Me either. Still installed but just taking up space. Never did work.

I take that back. It's working now. I had to completely save a post before it would embed. Previewing the post does not show the embedding.

[Gav-n-Tn]

Originally Posted by jdougher

I take that back. It's working now. I had to completely save a post before it would embed. Previewing the post does not show the embedding.

Then maybe I need to figure out what I haven't done right on my end. Thanks for the reply.

[Greek76]

No word yet on why existing youtube links stopped working?

[hotone]

I am having youtube issues too. When i put a link into a post, all i get is the link now. I have tried all of the suggestions in DJ's thread and nothing seems to be working. Any chance you can look at the code and see what's causing the link to post instead of the video? There are a bunch of people having issues. I know you are busy with other project's but this repair would be greatly appreciated.